I've seen those wet markets in China, no surprise diseases keep originating from there, the sanitation is terrible.

Visible conditions, as bad as they are, are better than the real condition of the food sold there. They have fresh good looking food out, and when customers buy one, shop keeper will take it down to wrap it and underhandedly replace whatever you bought with a less safe less fresh version of the same food (probably weighing less too, adding scam on top of a scam).

From the Jan 17, 2020 article in the journal Science -- the fatality rate for this virus is quite a bit lower than SARS was back in 2002. Chinese researchers have shared out the genome info to other researchers around the world. As of the 17th, fewer than 100 people were known to be infected. So this is pretty early for researchers to jump on it and squash it.

From the Jan 17, 2020 article in the journal Science -- the fatality rate for this virus is quite a bit lower than SARS was back in 2002. Chinese researchers have shared out the genome info to other researchers around the world. As of the 17th, fewer than 100 people were known to be infected. So this is pretty early for researchers to jump on it and squash it.

It's quite possible, and probable, that the Chinese authorities are covering up the extent of the infection's spread.

From the Jan 17, 2020 article in the journal Science -- the fatality rate for this virus is quite a bit lower than SARS was back in 2002. Chinese researchers have shared out the genome info to other researchers around the world. As of the 17th, fewer than 100 people were known to be infected. So this is pretty early for researchers to jump on it and squash it.

From the Jan 17, 2020 article in the journal Science -- the fatality rate for this virus is quite a bit lower than SARS was back in 2002. Chinese researchers have shared out the genome info to other researchers around the world. As of the 17th, fewer than 100 people were known to be infected. So this is pretty early for researchers to jump on it and squash it.

The numbers aren't really there yet to get a reliable fatality rate. Obviously I hope it isn't high, but we don't know yet.

God, I hate it when fiction beats reality by a few decades. IF Capt Trips is going to be making the rounds, I hope I make it as the tough, but kind older guy who saves people when the time comes, but in this event, still gets to live.

God, I hate it when fiction beats reality by a few decades. IF Capt Trips is going to be making the rounds, I hope I make it as the tough, but kind older guy who saves people when the time comes, but in this event, still gets to live.

This unnamed decease made me revisit the 2011 movie Contagion again. Great movie and the movie scenario have some rough resembles with this virus...with the difference being that the movie virus had a mortality rate of 20 - 30% and spread like wildfire.

The effects of this virus will most likely (hopefully) not be even remotely close to the movie virus. Still, it's interesting to see a horror-version of it in movie-form.

From other articles and their reported numbers, I find this not something at risk of causing some sort of pandemic that will kill more than any flu. I think for articles such as these, contagiousness and mortality rates for past viruses should be referenced.

Perhaps some sort of ‘flu index,’ similar to the Big Mac Index published by The Economist, should be created as a kind of informal reference for layman to understand the severity of a disease.

From other articles and their reported numbers, I find this not something at risk of causing some sort of pandemic that will kill more than any flu. I think for articles such as these, contagiousness and mortality rates for past viruses should be referenced.

Perhaps some sort of ‘flu index,’ similar to the Big Mac Index published by The Economist, should be created as a kind of informal reference for layman to understand the severity of a disease.

Solid data isn't available yet. So far, it looks like the mortality rate is pretty low, possibly a lot lower than reported if the number of cases detected is higher, which is fairly typical. But with so few cases and deaths, the data we've got is going to be dominated by noise for a while.